I build Android apps that people keep installed. Over 10 years I have shipped 5 apps that each passed 1M installs, and my current app holds a Play Store crash rate of 0.08% across 40+ device models. I have written Kotlin daily since 2017 and still keep one Java file around out of respect.
10
Years on Android
5
Apps over 1M installs
0.08%
Crash rate
2017
Kotlin since
Experience
Staff Android Engineer
2021 – Present
Pinelark Labs · Bangalore
Own the payments module of a fintech app with 4.2M installs; brought ANR rate from 0.31% to 0.09% over 3 quarters.
Migrated 180K lines from RxJava to Kotlin coroutines and Flow with zero release rollbacks across 14 versions.
Cut cold start from 2.8s to 1.1s on low-end devices by moving 9 init tasks to App Startup and deferring 3 SDKs.
Senior Android Engineer
2018 – 2021
Kavery Commerce · Bangalore
Led the Jetpack Compose rewrite of the checkout flow, raising conversion 6% and cutting UI code by 38%.
Built an offline-first cart with Room and WorkManager that recovered an estimated 22K orders per month in low-network regions.
Android Engineer
2016 – 2018
Trellyn Media · Pune
Shipped a news reader that reached 1.3M installs in 18 months with a 4.5 Play Store rating.
Reduced APK size from 34MB to 19MB with app bundles, resource shrinking, and WebP conversion.
Junior Android Developer
2014 – 2016
Bytefield Studio · Pune
Maintained 3 client apps on Android 4.x-5.x and wrote the studio's first shared Gradle build convention.